... eh?

The Ryders are way more Chosen One-y than Shepard could ever dream of being. All Shepard ever had going for her was her weird Prothean beacon synchronization, which stops being a big deal after the first game.

The Ryders not only have a specific equivalent of that in the way their special Pathfinder sauce interfaces with Remnant technology in a way that nobody else can, but the second they become Pathfinder everyone starts treating them like the Space Messiah who can solve all problems and wields vast and potent authority over everything. The entire reason they're allowed to retain their Pathfinder status as opposed to that title and the responsibility that goes with it transferring to Cora, who actually trained for the job, is because their dad arranged for them to have special gifts and powers that are uniquely theirs and are non-transferable.

>And even with almost no one really respecting them as the hero at first,

Right. The Initiative respects them so little that it can't wait to hand over massive amounts of its meager remaining resources to them and send them out to solve problems.

The Ryders are hella Chosen One.

-Merc
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